Equus (Act I - Scene 01)

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Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Vocabulary 2 Plot summary 2.1 Characters involved 2.2 Plot 3 Interpretation 4 Go to

[Bearbeiten] Vocabulary

page	English	English explanation	German translation
17	lean	opposite of fat	hager, mager
17	nugget	lump of precious metal (gold)	(Gold-)Klumpen
17	tenderness	sensitive touch, loving behaviour	Zärtlichkeit, Zartheit
17	nudging	hit s.o. in the ribs	leichter Rippenstoß
17	to fondle	to pet	streicheln
17	to nuzzle	to touch very softly	sanft berühren
17	to embrace	to have s.th.	annehmen, umfassen
17	chained	not free	in Ketten
17	desire	want s.th.	Verlangen, Begierde
17	belly	stomach	Bauch
17	to propagate	to breed	züchten, vermehren
17	rein	a strap fastened by which a rider controls an animal	Zügel
17	grief	to be on a bad mood	Betrübtheit
18	subversive	overthrown	umstürzlerisch
18	to piling up	* more and more money	anhäufen
18	assumptions	thesis, supposition	Annahme, Hypothese
18	dreary	drab, dark, sad	eintönig, trist, düster
18	vaguely	unclear, unsure	unbestimmt, unklar

[Bearbeiten] Plot summary

[Bearbeiten] Characters involved

• Martin Dysart
• Alan Strang
• Nugget (a horse)

[Bearbeiten] Plot

Alan stands with the horse, called Nugget, alone in the darkness. The horse presses his head against his shoulder and he fondles it.

Dysart, the psychiatrist, keeps distance and observes the scenery. Talking to himself, he thinks about the horse and its behaviour, asking many questions like "What desire could that be? Not to stay a horse any longer?" (p.17).

Then Alan and Nugget disappear in darkness.

Dysart talks to the audience. He says that Alan’s case is not unusual. There are similar ones, but this time the extremity is extraordinary. At the end, he claims his thoughts to be nonsense and starts to tell the whole story properly.

[Bearbeiten] Interpretation

This scene indicates us a first overview about the psychiatrist Dysart.

The scene is a monologue of Dysart, in what he thinks about the boy and the horse. Here you can understand that Dysart wants to find the problem of the horse, or what is wrong in the horse, that Alan did the crime.

But Dysart's main problem is he cannot understand the horse's head - "a horse's head is finally unknowable to me". He only handled children's heads.

Scene 1 delivers insight into the whole story and about the exercise that Dysart has to do.

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